In my case, with cox.net, going directly to the mailbox at the ISP (web
mail) is slow going, even though this is a cable ISP. Perhaps
Mailwasher Pro would speed things up.
For about a week now, I have used cox's SPAM filter before I "Get
Mail." In a sort of test mode, I am letting cox label the SPAM in the
Subject line, but I download everything so that I can review the
accuracy. So far, there are no false positives by cox, and cox is
correctly labeling about 80 to 90 percent of the SPAM. Panther Mail
1.3.9 is catching most of the remainder.
However, Panther Mail does not honor a few of the SPAM labels that cox
puts on, although I have Mail Preferences set to: "Trust Junk Mail
headers set by your Internet Service Provider." Another week of this,
and I'll likely let cox trash/delete what they catch as SPAM so that I
will not see it.
Can anyone say that Tiger Mail handles SPAM better than Panther Mail?
Many thanks,
Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.
On Nov 22, 2005, at 11:55 AM, G-List wrote:
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Howard Pettigrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [G] The same junk mail gets through
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:02:59 +1300
Tom, this is probably not quite what you are after but I use a
product called Mailwasher Pro that was developed by a very frustrated
programmer here in NZ who got sick of all the spam that got through
his company's system. I used to use it on my PC and they eventually
produced an OS X version. Before using your mail programme, you can
look in your Mailbox at your ISP and look at the first 200 characters
of any email and then mark them as junk or for deletion (have to
admit there are items on the G-list at times that end up being
deleted) etc. Then after asking it to process the mail, which is very
quick and works at the ISP level, I then connect and just get down
the stuff I really want to read. There are lists you can build with
various filters and the nasty stuff never comes back! I know it is
two steps and there are others products the same but it really works
for me. From memory, it costs about $30 US and I can't live without
it. Now, if we could just get everyone on the list to top post, .......
Hope this is of some help?
H
On 23/11/2005, at 4:10 AM, Tom Baker wrote:
G-4 running 10.3.9 and OS-X's Mail. It frustrates me to keep
marking as junk the same advertisements from the same companies but
continue to get their ads, week after week. In Mail I don't see any
of the type of filters I had in OS-9 Eudora, where you could flag
the name of the company and it would thenceforth filter it out.
How come I can keep marking the same companies' mail as junk but
keep on getting the ads? For example, I continually get ads for
books from an East Indian company called "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
When these ads come in, the "From" header is always
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and yet no matter how many times I flag
them as junk, OS-X Mail continues to let these ads through. What
can be done about a situation like this?
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